Out of the past 12/5/06

25 years ago: Dec. 5, 1981

The names of 16 candidates for the new Cape Girardeau City Council will appear on the ballot Feb. 2 in a primary election that will narrow the field to 12 for the April municipal election; the final two are Eugenia "Jean" Rice and Cecelia "Skeets" Sonderman.

Final approval from the state to proceed with plans to construct a 58,000-square-foot addition and renovate 61,000 square feet of existing space has been received by Southeast Missouri Hospital.

50 years ago: Dec. 5, 1956

During a Pontifical Mass, the Most Rev. Charles H. Helmsing, bishop of the recently consecrated Springfield-Cape Girardeau Diocese, accepts his throne at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Annunciation in Cape Girardeau; Helmsing announces the appointment of Monsignor Marion F. Forst, pastor of the cathedral, as vicar general of the new diocese.

Sunny Hill Poultry Co., located on Highway 61 south, will have to greatly improve its plant and sewerage facilities to meet health inspection standards; a grant or loan of $25,000 is needed by the company to make the necessary changes.

75 years ago: Dec. 5, 1931

S.V. and J.L Estes, who formerly owned a hardware and farm implement business at Marble Hill, Mo., open a new business to be known as Estes Implement Co., at 107 S. Sprigg St. in Cape Girardeau.

Five persons, four men and a woman, are taken into custody on charges of possession of liquor following raids conducted in two sections of Cape Girardeau; four are arrested when officers raid three rooms on the second floor of a building at 413 Broadway; the other is arrested shortly at his home in the 600 block of North Sprigg Street.

100 years ago: Dec. 5, 1906

Mrs. John Job, a middle-aged woman, was thrown from her buggy in a runaway late yesterday afternoon and received injuries from which her physicians say she has only a slight chance to recover.

When Charley H. Maevers opened his general merchandise store yesterday at Egypt Mills, he found he had been visited by a safe-cracker overnight; the safe door was standing open, its contents rifled and all the valuables stolen.

-- Sharon K. Sanders